The new U.S. corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) study shows a significant 32 percent reduction per unit in the industry’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 2006 and 2010. Dennis Colley, executive director of the Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA), spoke last week on the study findings during the AICC and TAPPI Corrugated Week in Long Beach, Calif.

Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) has reached an agreement to acquire the non-integrated corrugated packaging firm Bates Container located in Texas. The value of the deal, which is expected to be closed in Q4 2014, is $157 million.

C&M Conveyor announced today a $2.7 Million investment on a building expansion to consolidate its manufacturing operations in Mitchell, IN and to open a new engineering/design center in Bloomington, IN.

Harold G. Craddock, cofounder of Triad Packaging, Conover, N.C.; Bristol, Tenn.; and Athens, Ala.; and a partner in Chambers Container, Gastonia, N.C., passed away on Friday, September 12, after a long illness. He was 76.

Members of the AICC – The Independent Packaging Association elected the following slate of officers and directors at the Association’s annual meeting, September 28-October 1, in Long Beach, Calif. The slate was approved by acclamation during the general session held Tuesday, September 30.

The Board of Directors of AICC – The Independent Packaging Association has named David P. Goch of Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, LLP, Washington, as AICC’s Secretary and General Counsel, succeeding Paul H. Vishny who is retiring at the end of 2014. Vishny served AICC since the Association was founded in 1974.